I wanna be the one to walk in the sun
Two recent Paminas feature in concerts at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.
Julie Taymor
27 pieces since 2005 — at 1 company, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
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6 pieces as Metropolitan Opera — stats above show all coverage for Julie Taymor.
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Birds, bears, and based boyfriends
While the Met’s Mozart-lite holiday production of The Magic Flute kept the eyes entertained with spectacular sets and costumes, the scattershot casting and lack of musical seriousness dragged down this opera for beginners.
Mozart, maximally
Do you ever wonder how easy it is to invent a Christmas tradition?
You better sit down kids
If Sunday’s performance of Magic Flute at the Met demonstrated one thing, it is that opera targeted at children must be just as good as (if not better than) opera targeted at adults.
Just add magic
Heretofore I’d avoided the Met’s abridged, English-language holiday presentations.
Dark matter
In Schikaneder’s patriarchal cosmology, darkness is the province of emotional women—not just the erratic fury of the Queen of the Night, but the pathetic supplications of Pamina as well.